PEARL RIVER, N.Y.—For the 19th consecutive year, Hunter Douglas has won more awards than any other company in the Window Covering Manufacturers Assn. (WCMA) Product Awards. This year the company captured 30 honors out of the 56 conferred and earned the Product of the Year for the 14th year.
In addition, Hunter Douglas swept three product categories: “Green Products: Energy Efficiency,” “Green Products: Sustainability,” and “Verticals and Panel Tracks” and won 10 out of 12 Merchandising Awards.
“We’re delighted with the very strong endorsement that we received from the Window Covering Manufacturers Association’s independent panel of judges,” said Marv Hopkins,
Hunter Douglas North America Chairman and CEO. “We will continue to work hard to serve our many loyal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada with the best and most innovative products and programs in the industry.”
Product of the Year went to the 2014 Heritance Hardwood Shutters Collection. The collection was also named Best New Style Concept in the Shutters Category. These shutters feature a refreshed color offering, as well as new and updated frames designed to complement popular window trim styling. The exclusive Handcrafted Series was developed to feature techniques found today in high-end wood floors, cabinetry and furniture by offering six custom techniques including: Glazed, Glazed & Burnished, Classic Distressed, Heirloom Distressed, Rustic and Textured.
Shading and Sheers Category Awards
In the Shadings and Sheers Category, Silhouette window shadings garnered two awards, Best New Style Concept for New Fabrics for Alustra Silhouette and Silhouette window shadings and Honorable Mention, Best New Technical Innovation for the UltraGlide Click and Walk Away operating system.
The new fabrics include Alustra Myst with a soft metallic vane and a colored front sheer; Alustra French Linen, which offers a soft, subtle textured front sheer; Mystere, featuring a rich, horizontal-textured vane coupled with colored sheers to intensify pattern at window; and Monaco, a casual, cross-textured vane with a colored front sheer.
UltraGlide 2 Click and Walk Away offers convenient retractable cord operation that will lower and open the shading with just one click. In another win, Silhouette A Deux shadings was named Best Style Concept in the Specialty Applications Category. Silhouette A Deux shadings combines an independently operating room-darkening roller shade with a translucent Silhouette shading in one headrail. This option will now allow any translucent fabric to be offered in room-darkening.
The only winner in the Green Products: Energy Efficiency Category, T Screen with KOOLBLACK Technology from solar fabric leader Mermet, a Hunter Douglas company, walked away with Best New Style Concept. This dual-sided high-performance shade fabric combines the superior heat reflectivity of a white fabric with the glare control of a dark fabric, offering preeminent solar protection as well as crisp views.
Go to Hunter Douglas for more details.
